Chapter 189 Dao Shengyi

It’s not surprising that Dr. Manhattan appears in the Flashpoint universe. After all, this is also part of the official DC comic plot.

Chen Guang has long remembered that the reason why the Flashpoint Universe can exist at the same time as the new major event "Metal" is that someone obviously deliberately preserved this universe.

This person is naturally Dr. Manhattan...

The purpose of Dr. Manhattan's doing this is curiosity and research.

After leaving the Watchmen universe, he came to the DC world, where he was able to see the future of Manhattan and immediately foresaw a scene.

Superman's eyes were spitting out anger as he flew towards him.

Everything after that will be endless darkness, even a hundred years from now and a thousand years from now. Nothing can be seen in Manhattan.

He was very surprised. This is very rare for Manhattan, who has almost become a god. After all, if all information is open to you, then your attention must be locked on the unopened picture.

Manhattan wanted to know whether Superman killed himself with his powerful interaction attack, or whether he was angered by a mere punch and destroyed the entire universe.

No matter how you look at these two answers, it seems impossible.

So Manhattan, who was full of curiosity, chose to stay in the DC universe and began to study Superman in various parallel worlds.

He kept changing the fate of Kal Al, a Kryptonian, and wanted to see what Superman would look like under different growth environments. And whether Superman, whose fate had been changed, would let the future he foreseen happen...

…

Among them, of course, it also includes Superman from the Flashpoint universe.

"Excuse me, where did you take Superman?"

Manhattan asked curiously.

Chen Guang raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything you don't know about? Can't you see my answer in the future?"

Manhattan shook his head and said: "No, I can see it, but I have to at least ask so that I can see the picture of the answer you give me in the future."

Chen Guang showed an interesting expression: "Then if I don't answer now, will you still be able to see the answer?"

Dr. Manhattan nodded calmly and said: "You can see that the future does not end at one point, but branches infinitely like branches. My asking is a necessary condition for getting the answer. The moment I asked the question, I saw you.

Answer. Even if you change the future later, it will not affect my vision of another possibility."

Manhattan is not a murderous person, he just feels at a loss and empty because his mortal mind cannot keep up with this body.

For a creature that can kill anyone, or even any world, at will, destruction and killing are destined to be the most monotonous things he sees.

Manhattan's quantum body freed him from the low-level desires of the mortal body, but his human soul prevented him from truly ignoring everything. This caused Manhattan's inner pain and confusion, so he desperately wanted to know the answer.

It doesn't matter what the answer is or what the question is. He longs for the unknown and wants to see things he doesn't know that can travel through the timeline at will.

So, this time, when he discovered that Superman in the Flashpoint universe, the picture of his future existence suddenly disappeared...

Completely disappearing, just like he disappeared from heaven and earth from this moment. This finally made Manhattan unable to bear it any longer, interrupted his experiments on other supermen, and came to this universe to seek answers.

But Chen Guang was also quite curious about Manhattan. He asked: "What is the answer you saw?"

Manhattan said calmly: "I saw that you said that you took Superman to other universes and gave him far more play and fun than ordinary people. But I can't understand why you would do this for him when you are not your biological father and son?"

Chen Guang said with a smile: "After all, I have raised him so big and he keeps calling me father. It doesn't take much effort to play with children."

As he said that, he suddenly looked at Manhattan seriously and frowned: "But what makes me more curious is, why do you suddenly appear now? You should have been watching everything in this universe for a long time, right? Even before I came to this universe

Before?"

Manhattan nodded: "Yes... to be more precise, ten years ago was the earliest time I appeared in this universe. After that, it took three years for you to come to this universe."

He raised his head slightly, his eyes glowing with white light, making it impossible to tell where his eyes were focused, or even when.

Manhattan's tone was smooth and thick: "The reason why I have never appeared before is because you changed the fate of this Superman and made his future far more extensive and broader than the tree-like future of other Superman... This is very important to my experiment.

It was a good thing, so I deliberately did not interfere with this Superman's growth experience, hoping to see if Superman, who had not been affected by me but had changed his destiny, could bring me more answers to my unsolved mysteries."

Chen Guang nodded clearly: "But now, that Superman has left this universe, you find that his future is empty, and you find that you are missing an experimental product, so you come to trouble me?"

"It's not a trouble, it's an answer." Manhattan said calmly: "Besides, I have not affected the fate of this Superman, so he is not counted as my experimental subject."

Chen Guang suddenly smiled and said, "Did you see something just now, so you suddenly added the following sentence?"

Manhattan nodded and said: "I don't want to fight you, that makes no sense. Neither you nor I can be killed easily. Our battle will only increase the entropy of the universe and lose endless possibilities...

"

Seeing Chen Guang fighting for Superman is actually the reason why Manhattan asked the question "You are not your biological father and son, why do you do this for him?"

After finishing speaking, Manhattan paused and said quietly: "Besides, even if I successfully annihilate you, although you will not appear again in the future, considering the disappearance of Superman, I reasonably doubt that killing you will not help."

Yes, you are not the key to the problem."

Chen Guang smiled and said nothing.

However, according to the meaning revealed in the words of the big blue bird, it is obvious that he has seen the result of the battle between the two.

"So, do you have anything else to ask?"

Manhattan was silent for a moment and suddenly asked: "What will happen in the future?"

Chen Guang raised his eyebrows: "You, a person who can see the future through the flow of time at will, ask me, a person who only dares to travel backwards, this question?"

Manhattan stared at Chen Guang. There was no emotion in his white eyes, not even the so-called coldness. It was as if he was just looking at a wall with empty eyes and talking to himself.

"I think you know the answer to the question... but no matter which future, you are unwilling to tell me the answer. This shows that the order of knowing the answers is also important. If I knew the answer before the scene where Superman attacked me, the answer would probably be

It won’t work for me, right?”

Chen Guang shook his head helplessly: "You are very smart, Qiong. Even without this quantum body, you are still very smart. But... even if you have a quantum body, you have only transferred your intelligence from the clock machinery to the entire universe.

The basic particles have no change in their essence.”

He looked at Manhattan and said slowly: "Can you really not guess what will happen in the future? I don't mean the standard answer, or the exact future picture you can see, but use your brain and don't

I always want to see the answer to the problem, think about the mystery first, and make reasonable deductions... I don't think you can't guess what happened."

Manhattan's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.

Chen Guang knew, however, that he was looking through the future scenes in countless branches, looking for the one he revealed.

Maybe in some branch of the future, he might even use torture that far exceeds human imagination...

Chen Guang couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "You're a lazy fool, you're right... After all, even teleportation is to move the outside world's time and space, not to move yourself. Then I can't give you a reminder, don't go again

I’m looking for answers in the future scenes. I won’t reveal anything. You’ll understand after you experience it yourself.”

Of the two people in the room, one can flip through time at will, view the past to the future, and even branch out at any different choice. The other has flipped through their comics at the narrative level and knows exactly what will happen in this timeline in the future.

The conversation between them was naturally so confusing.

But it's actually not difficult to understand.

The purpose of Manhattan's coming here was, on the one hand, to be curious about the whereabouts of Flashpoint Superman. But the moment he asked, he already knew that the other person was in another universe. If he did not participate in the information of this universe, there would naturally be no response.

Of course, I can't see anything in the future.

However, in the process of reading this answer, he unexpectedly discovered from a certain future that Chen Guang actually knew the last scene he saw, so he asked.

He hopes to know in advance why all the timelines in the future disappeared after Superman attacked him in the future? He can no longer see it?

In fact, the answer is very simple, but there is a reason why Chen Guang is unwilling to say it.

After all... that might be the only chance to kill Manhattan directly without taking action.

This is one of the reasons why Chen Guang was able to chat with Manhattan so calmly. There was nothing to argue with a dying person, just a casual chat.

In fact, if you only consider the information that has already appeared, and think about it for a while, you will know that it can only be the manipulation of future Manhattan himself.

After all, no matter what kind of cosmic gods, God, giant beasts, Lucifer and others, let alone whether they can completely suppress Manhattan, even if they can really kill Manhattan, it will never be an unknown without even reaction time.

Only he himself can be so thorough and comprehensive in targeting his own behavior.

It's not hard to guess, especially when the information is limited to Manhattan and Superman.

In fact, what happens in the future is very simple: Superman flies towards Manhattan and shoots away the attacker behind him.

Afterwards, he looked at Manhattan with hope and said, "Should I kill you, or would you destroy the entire universe? There must be other options!"

With just these words, Superman made Manhattan repent, and made Joan, who was still a mortal deep down in her heart, see the hope represented by Superman.

So he took the initiative to block his past perception of the future and restored all the changes he had made to DC.

Afterwards, he returned to the Watchmen universe and gave all his abilities to a child named "Clark", making him the "Manhattan Superman" of the Watchmen universe to protect the world on his behalf.

And Dr. Manhattan himself...passed away peacefully and voluntarily.

But what can I say? This answer is very unreliable.

Chen Guang didn't want to spoil Manhattan so that future scenes would have less impact on the remaining humanity in Manhattan.

Manhattan must have thought so too, which is why he blocked his past perceptions. He understood that only by personally experiencing everything that happened at that time and conducting various experiments on the DC universe could he finally have this understanding.

Chen Guang had to lament that Dr. Manhattan was a character full of humanity from beginning to end... He seemed to be able to do everything, but he was unwilling to interfere with human subjective will, yet he felt pain because of what humans did.

and confused.

Such an existence that is regarded as a "god" is actually just a "constant sage mode" brought about by the disappearance of physical hormones.
To be continued...